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Colloquia and Other Seminars 2006-2007

2006
August
September
October
November
December

2007
January
February
March
April
May
June
July

Colloquia and Other Seminars 2007-2008 Academic Year

Colloquia and Other Seminars 2008-2009 Academic Year

 

August 2006

Nuclear Seminar - August 28

18F(a,p)21Ne reaction as an alternative neutron source for r-process in Supernovae

Hye Young Lee

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - August 29

Alternative Approaches to Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Professor Grant J. Mathews

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - August 30

Nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars

Dr. Amanda Karakas

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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September 2006

Special Colloquium - September 4

Vortices in Nature: from Black Holes and Hurricanes to Supeconductors

Victor V.Moshchalkov

INPAC-Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

High Energy Seminar - September 5

A Solution to the Supersymmetric Flavor Problem and its Experimental Signatures

Dr. David Morrissey

University of Michigan

Colloquium - September 6

What's so cool about Ultra-Cold Neutrons?

Professor Bradley Filippone

California Institute of Technology

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 7

Who's #1? Network-based ranking system for U.S. college football

Dr. Juyong Park

University of Notre Dame

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 8

Cooper pairing in proximity to ferromagnets

Dr. Matthias Eschrig

Theoretical Solid State Physics University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Nuclear Seminar - September 11

R-matrix analysis of CNO cycle reactions using AZURE

Edward Simpson

University of Surrey

High Energy Seminar - September 12

Light MSSM Higgs Boson Scenario and its test at Hadron Colliders

Dr. Kazuhiro Tobe

University of Michigan

Colloquium - September 13

The Fractal Nature of the Visible Universe

Professor Paul Coleman

Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

Atomic Physics Seminar - September 14

Electronic Structure of 2-D Artificial Atoms

Dr. Steven Blundell

CEA - Grenoble

Nuclear Seminar - September 18

Ultra-fast time-delayed measurements of level lifetimes at closed shell nuclei - the possibility of measurements at NSL

Dr. Henryk Mach

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - September 19

The mirror world and improved naturalness

Dr. Thomas Gregoire

Boston University

Colloquium - September 20

Symmetry and the Origin of Mass

Christopher T. Hill

Head of the Theoretical Physics Department of Fermilab

Special Astrophysics Seminar - September 21

Astrophysics Careers in National Security or How I Learned to Love Worrying and Stop the Bomb

Dr. Timothy Ashenfelter

Senior Scientist, National Securities Technology Department of Energy

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 22

X-Ray Studies of the Supersolid State

Professor Clement Burns

Department of Physics, Western Michigan University

Nuclear Seminar - September 25

Key Reactions of Nucleosynthesis in Stars

Dr. J. Wolfgang Hammer

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - September 26

Using Galaxy Cluster Simulations to Study Dark Energy

Professor Paul Ricker

University of Illinois

Colloquium - September 27 (POSTPONED)

Is there a fourth sterile neutrino?

Professor David Ernst

Vanderbilt University

Condensed Matter Seminar - September 29

Network-based Manipulation of Cellular Metabolism

Professor Adilson Motter

Department of Physics & Astronomy Northwestern University

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October 2006

Nuclear Seminar - October 2

Simplifying the Nuclear Many-Body Problem with Low Momentum Interactions

Dr. Scott Bogner

Ohio State University

High Energy Seminar - October 3

Recent Results from MINOS

Dr. Bob Zwaska

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois

Colloquium - October 4

The Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy

Professor Fulvio Melia

University of Arizona

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 6

In Situ X-ray Studies of Ferroelectricity in Ultrathin Perovskite Films

Professor Carol Thompson

Northern Illinois University

Nuclear Seminar - October 9

Experimental Tests of Chaos in Nuclei

Dr. Gary E. Mitchell

North Carolina State University, Raleigh TUNL, Durham, North Carolina

Astrophysics Seminar - October 10

Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

Dr. Kevin Krisciunas

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - October 11

Molecular Environmental Science: From X-rays to Biogeochemistry to Beethoven

Dr. Ken Kemner

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 13

Probing Hybridization: Understanding the Many Faces of Magnetism

Kenneth S. Burch

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Los Alamos National Laboratory

Special Seminar - October 16 Nieuwland Lectureship

Perspectives in Supramolecular Chemistry: From Molecular Recognition Towards Self-Organization and From Supramolecular Chemistry to Constitutional Dynamic Chemistry

Dr. Jean-Marie Lehn - 1987 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry

ISIS - Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg and College de France, Paris

Nuclear Seminar - October 20

7Be-induced alpha transfer reactions

Dr. Hanan Amro

University of Michigan

Nuclear Seminar - October 23

Trojan Horse as indirect technique in nuclear astrophysics

Dr. A.M. Mukhamedzhanov

Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University

High Energy Seminar - October 24

Understanding perturbative QCD through single-top-quark production

Dr. Zach Sullivan

Argonne National Laboratory

Astrophysics Seminar - October 24

Numerical Simulations of the Spreading of Accreted Matter on Stars

Prof. Dinshaw Balsara

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - October 25

Analytical Ion Beam Techniques on Interdisciplinary Ways

Professor Hanns-Werner Becker

Ruhr Universitaet Bochum

Condensed Matter Seminar - October 27

Communities and the large-scale structure of networks

Professor Mark Newman

University of Michigan

Atomic Seminar - October 30

Optical Detection of Liquid-State NMR

Dr. Igor Savukov

Princeton University

Nuclear Seminar - October 30

The SHARAQ Project - High Resolution Spectroscopy with RI Beams

Dr. Tomohiro Uesaka

Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo

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November 2006

Colloquium - November 1

The Angra Neutrino Project

Dr. Dave Reyna

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

Special Nuclear Seminar - November 1

The d(d,p)t reaction in metallic environment

Dr. Francesco Raiola

University of Bochum, Germany

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 3

TWO-GAP SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN MgB2

Sergei P. Kruchinin

Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev,Ukraine

Astrophysics Seminar - November 7

I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK: hunting for trees in the Lyman-alpha forest

Dr. John O'Meara

Penn State - Worthington - Scranton

High Energy Seminar - November 7

Radiative Penguin Decays at BaBar

Prof. Colin Jessop

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - November 8

The Physics of Dense Matter: From the Laboratory to the Stars

Dr. Andrew W. Steiner

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Michigan State University

Special ITS/CM Seminar - November 9

The mystery of blinking dots

Dr. Pavel Frantzusov

University of Washington

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 10

Emergent disease spreading and complex networks

Prof. Alessandro Vespignani

Indiana University - Bloomington

Nuclear Seminar - November 13

Evidence of triaxial deformation in N=100 nuclei?

Dr. Daryl Hartley

Department of Physics U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

Astrophysics Seminar - November 14

The Universe at Z > 37: The Origin of the Neutron-Capture Elements

Professor Jennifer Johnson

Ohio State University

Colloquium - November 15

Nuclear Physics in the Post 9/11 Era. Educating First Responders and Stewardship Science: New Rsults on Fission Using Surrogate Reactions

Professor C.W. Beausang

University of Richmond

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 17

Rich-club ordering in complex networks

Professor Vittoria Colizza

Indiana University - Bloomington

Nuclear Seminar - November 20

Order, Ergodicity and Chaos in Superdeformed Nuclei

Dr. Teng Lek Khoo

Argonne National Laboratory

Colloquium - November 21

Simplifying the Nuclear Many-Body Problem with the Renormalization Group

Dr. Scott K. Bogner

Ohio State University

Colloquium - November 22

Quantum Gravity - POSTPONED

Dr. Lee Smolin

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Nuclear Seminar - November 27

K-number violation in compound nuclei

Dr. Oleg Vorov

University of North Caroline at Charlotte

Astrophysics Seminar - November 28

Dwarf Galaxy Evolution

Dr. Liese van Zee

Indiana University - Bloomington

Condensed Matter Seminar - November 28

Preferential attachment in the growth of social networks: the case of Wikipedia

Prof. Guido Caldarelli

University of Rome

Colloquium - November 29

Nuclei, quantum phase transitions, and mesoscopic systems

Dr. Mark A. Caprio

Yale University

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December 2006

Condensed Matter Seminar - December 1

Andreev bound states in inhomogeneous superconductors

Lucian Covaci

University of British Columbia, Canada

Nuclear Seminar - December 4

Spectroscopic study of neutron-rich nuclei with GAMMASPHERE

Dr. Shaofei Zhu

Argonne National Laboratory

Astrophysics Seminar - December 5

Revealing the Energetic Sources Buried in the Nuclei of Galaxies

Professor Nancy Levenson

University of Kentucky

Colloquium - December 6

The Puzzling Unsolved Mysteries of Liquid Water

Professor H. Eugene Stanley

Boston University

Public Outreach Presentation - December 8 & 10

A modern astrophysics perspective on what and when was the Christmas Star

Professor Grant J. Mathews Director, Center for Astrophysics

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - December 12

Topological interactions of Higgs bosons

Dr. Richard Hill

Fermilab

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January 2007

Condensed Matter Seminar - January 12

Synchronization and Extreme Fluctuatuions in Noisy Task-Completion Networks

Hasan Guclu, PhD

Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Colloquium - January 17

Quantum Gravity

Dr. Lee Smolin

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Astrophysics Seminar - January 23

The evaporation and Thermal Balance of Tiny HI Clouds in the Interstellar Medium

Dr. Jonathan D. Slavin

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

High Energy Seminar - January 23

Going beyond the Standard Model

Prof. Akaki Liparteliani

Tbilisi and University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - January 24

High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: a Report from the South Pole

Professor Francis Halzen

University of Wisconsin

Condensed Matter Seminar - January 26

Phase Synchronization in coupled nonlinear oscillatory system

Limei Xu

Center for Polymer Studies - Boston University

Nuclear Seminar - January 29

A Cluster Model of 6He and 6Li

Jeremy Armstrong

NSCL, Michigan State University

Astrophysics Seminar - January 30

Dust Sedimentation in Protoplanetary Disks

David Tilley

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - January 30

Can the Higgs be composite and supersymmetric?

Dr. Antonio Delgado

CERN

Colloquium - January 31

The Physics behind the LHC

Dr. Antonio Delgado

CERN

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February 2007

Condensed Matter Seminar - February 2

Glass formation in bimetallic nanoparticles

Prof. J. Daniel Gezelter

Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - February 6

Constructing One-Loop Amplitudes

Dr. Ruth Britto

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Colloquium - February 7

QCD Scattering Amplitudes from Spinors, Twistors and Singularities

Dr. Ruth Britto

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Condensed Matter Seminar - February 9

Brownian dynamics simulation studies of colloidal systems

Andras Libal

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - February 13 - POSTPONED

Feedback in the Universe

Prof. Chris Howk

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - February 14

Symmetry and Strong Interactions: From QCD to the Higgs Boson

Dr. Richard Hill

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Condensed Matter Seminar - February 16

Environmental Catalysis from First Principles

Prof. William F. Schneider

Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Nuclear Seminar - February 19

To chiral rotation and back again

S. Daniel Almehed

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - February 20

Feedback in the Universe

Prof. Chris Howk

University of Notre Dame

High Energy Seminar - February 20

On the Phenomenology of Extra Dimensions

Prof. Gela Devidze

Tbilisi and the University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - February 21

The amazing properties of two-dimensional Carbon

Prof. Antonio H. Castro-Neto

Harvard University/Boston University

Condensed Matter Seminar - February 23

On some magnetic and kinetic properties of the s-d exchange model

Dr. Eugene Kogan

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Nuclear Seminar - February 26

Structural Studies of the Most Exotic Nuclei: First Results from the Stopped RISING Project

Dr. Paddy Regan

University of Surrey

Astrophysics Seminar - February 27 - POSTPONED

Quasars and the Birth and Evolution of Massive Galaxies

Prof. Kirk Korista

Western Michigan University

High Energy Seminar - February 27

Reheating Metastable O'Raifeartaigh Models

Dr. Patrick Fox

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Colloquium - February 28

Playing Hide and Seek with the Higgs

Dr. Patrick Fox

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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March 2007

Nuclear Seminar - March 1

Study of Beta-delayed Neutron Decay Near the Neutron Drip Line

Dr. Chandana Sumithrarachchi

Dept. of Chemistry & NSCL, Michigan State University

Condensed Matter Seminar - March 2

Forum on Semiconductors

Raja Chakarvorty, Yingyuan Zhou and Zhiguo Ge

University of Notre Dame

Astrophysics Seminar - March 6

Astrochemistry and Spectroscopy of C60

Prof. Benjamin J. McCall

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Special Seminar - March 6

Teaching Physical Science in 12 problems: an advanced elective course for undergraduates at Washington University for both chemistry and physics majors

Prof. Lee Sobotka

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Colloquium - March 7

The CMS Experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Dr. Dan Green

Fermilab

Condensed Matter Seminar - March 9

Deconstructing Intracellular Dynamics with Single Event Resolution: Bacterial Gene Expression and Beyond

Prof. Ido Golding

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spring Break - March 14

Nuclear Seminar - March 19

Direct measurement of 4He(12C,16O)g cross section near stellar energy at KUTL

Prof. Kenshi Sagara

Kyushu University Tandem Lab, Fukuoka, Japan

Astrophysics Seminar - March 20

Deciphering the GeV Sky: Gamma-Ray Astronomy in the Era of GLAST

Vasiliki Pavlidou

University of Chicago

Colloquium - March 21

Effect of Cosmological Expansion on Local Dynamics

Prof. Greg Adkins

Franklin and Marshall College

Colloquium - March 23

The Epidemic Spread of Health Behavior in a Complex, Longitudinally Resolved Social Network

Prof. Nicholas Christakis

Harvard University

Nuclear Seminar - March 26

24Mg(a,g)28Si Resonance Parameters at Low Alpha Energies

Elizabeth K. Strandberg

University of Notre Dame

Colloquium - March 28

Galactic Cartography in the Infrared

Prof. Robert A. Benjamin

University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

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April 2007

Nuclear Seminar - April 2

ISAC, DRAGON and Exploding Stars

John D'Auria, Professor Emeritus

Simon Fraser University of Canada

Nieuwland Lecture Series - April 2

Stem Cells of the Skin and Their Lineages

Elaine Fuchs Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Rockefeller University

Atomic Physics Seminar - April 3

VN-8 Approximation for Atomic Calculations

Dr. Vladimir Dzuba

University of New South Wales

Nieuwland Lecture Series - April 3

Stem Cells: Biology and Clinical Promise

Elaine Fuchs Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Rockefeller University

Colloquium - April 4

Is there a fourth sterile neutrino?

Prof. David J. Ernst

Vanderbilt University

Astrophysics Seminar - April 10

Star Formation in the Nearest Kiloparsec, The View from Spitzer

Prof. S. Thoms Megeath

University of Toledo

Colloquium - April 11

Exploring Matter-Antimatter Asymmetries at the B Factories

Prof. David MacFarlane

Stanford University

Condensed Matter Seminar - April 13

Bilayer Manganites: A Physics Playground

Dr. Kenneth Gray

Materials Science Division - Argonne National Laboratory

Nuclear Seminar - April 16

Molecular picture in heavy ion reactions at low energy

Prof. Alexis Diaz-Torres

Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University

Colloquium - April 18

LIGO, on the Threshold of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Stan Whitcomb

Caltech

Nuclear Seminar - April 19

Use of the 15N(p,α,g)12C Reaction for Nanoscale Studies of Cement Hydration

Prof. Jeffrey S. Schweitzer

University of Connecticut

Nuclear Seminar - April 23

Calculations with Finite-range forces in Neutron-rich Nuclei

Dr. Nicolas Schunck

Oak Ridge National Laboratory University of Tennessee

Astrophysics Seminar - April 24

The Large and Small Structures of Star Formation: How Your Sun was Born

Prof. Leslie Looney

University of Illinois

High Energy Seminar - April 24

Phi-radiative decays at KLOE

Dr. Camilla Di Donato

I.N.F.N. Naples

Colloquium - April 25

New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant

Gerald Gabrielse, Leverett Professor of Physics

Harvard University

Condensed Matter Seminar - April 27

Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films

Dr. Margo Levine

Northwestern University

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May 2007

Astrophysics Seminar - May 1

Quasars and the Birth and Evolution of Massive Galaxies

Prof. Kirk Korista

Western Michigan University

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